Homemade Bomb Found In Hobby Shop

February 20, 2001|STAFF REPORTS

TAMARAC — Police evacuated employees from four stores in a Tamarac strip mall Monday morning after a worker at a hobby shop found a homemade bomb in the bathroom.

Workers called police to the store, R.C. Hobbies at 6800 N. University Drive, about 9:30 a.m., said Broward Sheriff's Office spokesman Jim Leljedal. The small explosive was attached to the toilet seat inside the store's single-toilet public restroom.

Members of the Bomb and Arson Unit removed the device, Leljedal said.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 954-765-4321 or Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.